It started as a small experiment. A Scrum team decided to trial an AI work-item recommender to speed up backlog refinement. Within a few sprints, something subtle but significant began...
You instrumented five usage signals on Monday, translated them into hypotheses on Tuesday, sliced a thin story with telemetry on Wednesday, and ranked the work with evidence on Thursday. Today...
You now have a handful of thin, telemetry-ready stories born from real usage signals. The next question is “Which ones cut the coming Sprint?” Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) started...
The Universal Challenge of Product Development Have you ever wondered why product development activities don't seem to go as planned just about every time? I'm not a big fan...
Yesterday, we mapped usage signals to clear hypotheses and product goals. Today, we try to put that insight into the Sprint backlog without over-engineering. The aim is a thin...
Yesterday, *hopefully* you wired the product for truth. You have five clean baseline metrics and a dashboard that finally says more than “ship faster.” Today, we move to the middle...
I find that many teams don’t have a solid understanding of the tools that assist with product management. The challenging part for me is that there are many great tools...
Product management has taken many forms since Procter & Gamble introduced the term in the early 1930s. Yet, the core purpose remains the same: one accountable steward guides a product...
- 2025 Data Shows It’s Evolving (and Earning More Than Ever)Did You Know? Despite all the buzz about AI taking over jobs, Agile and Scrum are not only surviving; they’re...
As a husband for over 25 years and a father of four energetic boys (ages 21-12), one of my deepest responsibilities is to prepare them to serve their future spouses/family...
The Problem. Your radar now shows what code is hot and how the team feels, but not why some work crawls while other items sprint to “Done.” Hidden queue time...
The Problem. Commit and cycle-time charts show what happened; they rarely reveal how the team feels. Stress signals appear first in Slack emojis, tense pull-request comments, or an awkward silence...